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Dekra Industrial achieves its 8th consecutive NOSCAR Award

Oct 17, 2022 Dekra Industrial SA, National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA), Carina Kleinhans, Johan Gerber


Dekra Industrial achieves its 8th consecutive NOSCAR Award 

 

Dekra Industrial SA is pleased to announce the achievement of its 8th annual NOSCAR safety award - the highest safety honour which can be bestowed on a business by the National Occupational Safety Association (NOSA).

 

Dekra Industrial in South Africa has played a major role in the fields of NDT and inspection locally across a wide range of industry sectors for many years. Dekra Industrial’s Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Manager, Carina Kleinhans, explains: “This award highlights our ingrained ethos of ‘living the safety culture’ across our company, country, and around the clock. The recent NOSA ranking furthermore reflects our highest ever score of 97.48 percent - as compared to our original 2013 score of 92.28 percent.”

 

Kleinhans adds, “Every Dekra Industrial employee and contractor is encouraged to keep identifying areas for improvement and risk mitigation and management within the workplace. You could say that every branch and department is interlinked by our safety mindset; while our management team members operate a true open-door policy to hear and attend to any areas of concern,” she notes.

Categories that are audited annually by NOSA include: leadership and worker participation; planning, support and operational; performance evaluation; improvement; safety; health; environmental; risk management; systems; compliance and effectiveness.

 

“In addition,” clarifies Kleinhans, “legislative requirements can change from time to time, and we are required to remain abreast of this also. A good example is how 2020 brought in new additional reporting factors relating to Covid. Dekra Industrial complied with all new requirements, while not only maintaining but in fact improving our NOSA ranking with an even higher score.”

 

Dekra Industrial Managing Director Johan Gerber adds: “These audited NOSA results are very pleasing, and we are extremely proud to have improved upon our results - from an already-high benchmark - in line with our desire to be true ‘the heroes of safety’. I congratulate Carina and the entire HSE team - as well as each and individual employee throughout the company.”

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